LENS 05 / CONTEXT LENS

Procurement can shape the build

Treat contracts, portability, price changes, and vendor exit as product constraints.

PREMISE

A prototype can hide the operating terms that determine whether a community can sustain it. Procurement choices affect data control, model changes, support, portability, and the practical ability to leave.

FIELD QUESTIONS

What to ask

Which services, contracts, and accounts must remain active?
What can change without the project team's approval?
Can prompts, records, evaluations, and audit history be exported?
What manual or alternate path exists at exit?

EVIDENCE SIGNALS

What good evidence looks like

Dependencies and recurring costs are visible.
Model and vendor changes pass an evaluation gate.
Export, hand-back, and deletion are rehearsed.

FAILURE MODES

What can disappear

A pricing or policy change makes the workflow unavailable.
A model update changes behavior without review.
The community cannot recover its operating record at exit.

FIELD EXERCISE

Run this next

List every external dependency.
Mark its owner, cost, export, and failure path.
Run a one-hour hand-back rehearsal.